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Show DEMAND HEARING FOR VINDICATION Venizelist Sympathizers Ask Court to Try Them on Charge of High Treason, Expecting Acquittal. ATHENS. March 10. A number of the imprisoned VenLzelists set at liberty liber-ty by the Greek government in compliance com-pliance with the terms of tho allied ultimatum ulti-matum of January 8 have refused to regard the matter as closed by their liberation lib-eration at the hehest of the entente powers. Colonel Xymbrakakis, cx-chief of police of Athens and brother of the minister of war in the Veuizelo? cabinet cab-inet ; editor Kyros of the Venizelist organ in Athens, the ''Hestia, " and a score of others have petitioned the Greek appellate court to proceed with their cases, take evidence, as to the charge of hiph treason brought against them, and either acquit or convict them. All of those who have petitioned the appellate court in this sense protest their innocence and demand that they be given an opportunity to prove by , due process of law in the Greek courts that they have been guilty of no attempt at-tempt to conspire, against ihe legal government gov-ernment of Greece. Questioned on the attitude of the Greek government in respect of these demands, the minister of justice declared de-clared that the cabinet considered the matter disposed of by the entente ultimatum. ulti-matum. In case the trials were carried through aud the petitioners found guilty, guil-ty, he declared, it would be impossible to sentence them; in case they were found innocent, the fact would leave in the public mind a perhaps unjust presumption pre-sumption of guilt against those who liad not so petitioned for the trial to proceed. It is believed that the Lambros government gov-ernment will refuse the petitions on these grounds. |